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bug#17080: [PATCH] egrep, fgrep: go back to shell scripts
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#17080: [PATCH] egrep, fgrep: go back to shell scripts |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Mar 2014 19:53:47 +0200 |
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 17:21:35 -0700
>
> Although egrep's and fgrep's switch from shell scripts to
> executables may have made sense in 2005, it complicated
> maintenance and recently has caused subtle performance bugs.
> Go back to the old way of doing things, as it's simpler and more
> easily separated from the mainstream implementation. This should
> be good enough nowadays, as POSIX has withdrawn egrep/fgrep and
> portable applications should be using -E/-F anyway.
I urge you to reconsider: using shell scripts will be bad news for any
system that doesn't use a Unix shell. Those whose muscle memory is
used to typing "fgrep" will have hard time relearning to type "grep -F"
instead.